Yesterday was National Egg Roll Day so our thoughts immediately went to our favorite spot for authentic Chinese-American cuisine, Jade Mountain on 2nd Avenue in the East Village.
Sadly this restaurant closed in 2007 after the owner, Reginald Chan was fatally struck by a truck while making a food delivery on his bicycle (his delivery person had already left for the evening when the last order came in).
We miss this spot as it not only had great egg rolls but we also loved their classic chicken egg foo young and of course loved their neon signage.
Even @thedailyheller remembers Jade Mountain and in his Sunday New York Times Book Review of our book “Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York” (swipe left for 3rd photo) he quotes, “If you’re at all interested in the passing cityscape, this book is a documentary mother lode; if you’re happy to see these joints disappear, it might at least kindle appreciation for them. “Store Front” is not mired in nostalgia. Take the photograph of the (now closed” Jade Mountain Restaurant, on Second Avenue near East 12th Street, where I ate cheap Chinese food as a teenager. It is not a storefront I get misty-eyed seeing again; even the so-called chop-suey-style sign lettering does not make me long for what’s lost. But it’s part of a larger mosaic that was (and is) New York’s retail culture”. Steven Heller Sunday, April 5, 2009.
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